They had been brought there under contract to fill the places of American workingmen. to glut the market. and thus depress wages. Mr. Tuke. of the Tuke immigration committee of Great Britain. a short time ago wrote a letter to the London Times. and after referring to the immigrants whose passage had been paid to America from the Tuke fund. said: "Many instances are cited in which immigrants are returning their passagemoney." Whether they had done so because they had been transported under agreement or contract to perform labor here. and were to a certain extent compelled to return their passagemoney. toes not appear. but it is more than probable that such was the case. In one year (1883) this Tuke immigration committee "assisted." or rather transported. 3.600 persons to the United States. It is more than questionable whether these assisted immigrants. even if they do iot come under contract. are a desirable acquisition to our population. This Government is certainly tinder no moral obligations to care for and maintain the paierized victims oflime misrule and tyranny of foreign powers. whether brought ere by contract or by the monopolies of America. or assisted here by the governments whose policy reduced them to pauperism. The Pittsbumrgh Commercial Gazette. in its issue of December 11.1883. publishes a "special" from Erie.
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Generalization about assisted immigrants being undesirable and a burden on the government.